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...publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding's absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards. By bringing such luminaries as Liza Minelli, James Stewart and Paul Newman to Harvard, the boys at 12 Holyoke have arranged a can't miss mechanism geared to shower headlines on wheat and chaff alike...
...have appeared in a general-release film as recently as five years ago. Were you uncomfortable, Alfred Hitchcock was asked, when you read of the young man some years back who, after seeing Psycho, assaulted and fatally stabbed a young woman who was in the process of taking a shower...
...group - a call girl, a wise old man, a black militant, a housewife and her children - that has survived so many capsized ships, stalled elevators and jet liners piloted by Dean Martin. They seem to realize, as the reader surely does, that eventually order will be restored in a shower of bullets, heroics and heavy ironies...
...picks he may be sprayed from above with pesticides. If he needs to urinate, he must find a place at the edge of the field, for normally there are no sanitary facilities provided. His two-room house might have electricity, but it probably has no sink, toilet, bath or shower. He typically receives $1.43 an hour without overtime, sick pay, unemployment benefits, or a medical plan, although he is far more susceptible than most other workers to accidents, disease, and unemployment. It is difficult for him to obtain social security, but that wouldn't help much--his life expectancy...
Reading an Alger novel, Playwright S.N. Behrman once said, is like taking a shower in innocence. Alger could not hate even his villains. The kidnapers in Silas Snobden's Office Boy are half hearted scoundrels, outstandingly stupid rather than wicked...